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"The ASCA National Model represents what a school counseling program should contain and serves as an organizational tool to identify and prioritize the elements of a quality school counseling program."
-Judy Bowers & Trish Hatch, Ph.D.
-Judy Bowers & Trish Hatch, Ph.D.
WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE?
This page offers a basic breakdown of the ASCA National Model. This is a school counseling program model that offers the school a comprehensive program dedicated to advocating for all students' academic, personal/social, college, and career development.
As evidenced in the border of the graphic above, ASCA incorporates the four themes of leadership, advocacy, collaboration and systemic change as part of the framework of The ASCA National Model.
(The Education Trust, 1997)
(The Education Trust, 1997)
The American School Counseling Association (ASCA) National Model is integral to providing students and the school community with a comprehensive, data-driven, and gap-closing school counseling program.
The ASCA National Model:
1. establishes the school counseling program as an integral component of the academic mission of your
school;
2. ensures equitable access to the school counseling program for all students provided by a state-
credentialed school counselor;
3. identifies the knowledge and skills all students might acquire as a result of the K-12 school
counseling program; and
4. ensures the school counseling program is comprehensive in design and delivered in a systematic
fashion to all students.
(Judy Bowers & Trish Hatch, Ph.D., 2005)
The ASCA Ethical Standards for School Counselors
The ASCA Ethical Standards for Counselors include a set of responsibilities to students, parents,
colleagues, the school, communities, and the counseling profession.
The following are excerpts of the Ethical Standards taken from the standards that refer to counselors’ responsibilities to students:
A.1. Responsibilities to Students
Professional school counselors:
Have a primary obligation to the students, who are to be treated with dignity and respect as unique individuals.
Are concerned with the educational, academic, career, personal and social needs and encourage the maximum development of every student.
Respect students’ values, beliefs and cultural background and do not impose the school counselor’s personal values on students or their families.
Are knowledgeable of laws, regulations and policies relating to students and strive to protect and inform students regarding their rights.
Promote the welfare of individual students and collaborate with
them to develop an action plan for success.
Consider the involvement of support networks valued by the individual students.
Understand that professional distance with students is appropriate, and any sexual or romantic relationship with students whether illegal in the state of practice is considered a grievous breach of ethics and is prohibited regardless of a student’s age.
Access the full Ethical Standards in English here.
Access the full Ethical Standards in Spanish here.
The ASCA Ethical Standards for Counselors include a set of responsibilities to students, parents,
colleagues, the school, communities, and the counseling profession.
The following are excerpts of the Ethical Standards taken from the standards that refer to counselors’ responsibilities to students:
A.1. Responsibilities to Students
Professional school counselors:
Have a primary obligation to the students, who are to be treated with dignity and respect as unique individuals.
Are concerned with the educational, academic, career, personal and social needs and encourage the maximum development of every student.
Respect students’ values, beliefs and cultural background and do not impose the school counselor’s personal values on students or their families.
Are knowledgeable of laws, regulations and policies relating to students and strive to protect and inform students regarding their rights.
Promote the welfare of individual students and collaborate with
them to develop an action plan for success.
Consider the involvement of support networks valued by the individual students.
Understand that professional distance with students is appropriate, and any sexual or romantic relationship with students whether illegal in the state of practice is considered a grievous breach of ethics and is prohibited regardless of a student’s age.
Access the full Ethical Standards in English here.
Access the full Ethical Standards in Spanish here.
Page created by Kalya Castillo, graduate student of Counselor Education Program at Lehman College.